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Students at Kelvin High School will soon
have a new 10,000-sq.-ft. gym, the province announced
Monday.

“We want students to be active and
engaged,” said Premier Greg Selinger following the announcement. “A new gym will
allow another generation of young people and people in the community to enjoy
the benefits of active living. When you have an active lifestyle, you do better
in school.”

The new gym, which will include new
changing rooms and an elevator to meet access requirements, is expected to cost
roughly $7 million.

Principal Jim Brown said he’s hoping
Kelvin also gets to keep its existing gym, because the school desperately needs
the space.

“Right now, with the number of students we
have in grade 9 and 10, they pretty much take up every
slot.”

Brown said the only in-school physical
education classes grade 11 and 12 students take are health classes held in
classrooms.

“Their gym time, the actual physical
activity hours, are done outside of the regular school day. For some of them
that works great. For some of them, it would just be great to have that
component in the school.”

Grade 12 student Clement Sackey said it’ll
be tough not being able to play in the new gym, but he’d love to come back and
coach.

“I think it means something really big for
our community. It’s a bigger opportunity to have more space to train, to be
physically active.”

Construction is slated for early next year
with completion expected by December of 2016.